Can you work this out?

[Narnia]

No cheating HAL9000

If

2+3=10

7+2=63

6+5=66

8+4=96

What is

9+7=?

[rosa_klebb]

9+7=144

[Narnia]

You posted for the first time to write a number? Well done............let's see if anyone knows why!

[CrystalClear]

I would really like to get this, but I can't. At the same time, roasa - do you have a dagger in your shoe?Should I be worried!

[brum]

Declan Wrote:

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> You posted for the first time to write a number?

> Well done............let's see if anyone knows

> why!

9+7 = 16

9x16 = 144

[Narnia]

Yes Brum...........would you have got it without Rosa's answer though?

[brum]

Yes Declan, I worked it out from the clues. Then realised I was beaten to it, but then saw your post above ....

[Ladymuck]

と同様になる可能性があります日本語

[Harry]

117

[CrystalClear]

still none the wiser - do we get an explanation?

[Narnia]

Tomorrow

[Clazza]

you add the numbers e.g 2+3 = 5 & then multiply the answer by the first number so 5 x 2 = 10. So 9+7 = 16 & 16 x 9 = 144

[Brendan]

9+7=16. The fact that you can?t do arithmetic has nothing to do with it. It is still 16.

[Narnia]

Not here it isn't.

[Brendan]

Nonsense! 9+7=16

Or maybe 97.

[Narnia]

Now you're talking........welcome!

[computedshorty]

2 + 3 = 10 (add 2 + 3 to make 5.Then times by the first number which is 2 to make 10)

7 + 2 = 63 (add 7 + 2 to make 9.Then times by the first number which is 7 to make 63)

6 + 5 = 66 (add 6 + 5 to make 11.Then times by the first number which is 6 to make 66)

8 + 4 = 96 (add 8 + 4 to make 12.Then times by the first number which is 8 to make 96)

9 + 7 = (add 9 + 7 to make 16.Then times by the first number which is 9 to make 144)

Therefore, 9 + 7 = 144

[ianr]

Or, to put it succinctly,

For a+b read a(a+b).

You could make up innumerable different puzzles using different transformations.

A useful clue for the current one is that the RHS is an exact multiple of the LHS.

[computedshorty]

What is a collective name for three Hounds?

[HAL9000]

computedshorty Wrote:

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> What is a collective name for three Hounds?

A brace (2) leash (3) of hounds.

Also, a cry, hunt, meet, kennel, mute, pack, stable of hounds in general.

[Narnia]

A Baskerville?

[charliecharlie]

http://sciencegeekgirl.com/files/2008/09/blackboard-equations-istock_000003015755xsmall.jpg

I found it much easier to work it out like this.... http://sciencegeekgirl.com/files/2008/09/blackboard-equations-istock_000003015755xsmall.jpg

but then maths was not always my strong point

so that's 1x1image=2

[brum]

Charlie - you need a good manicure.

[computedshorty]

Hounds Three in a group is couple and a half

[HAL9000]

computedshorty Wrote:

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> Hounds Three in a group is couple and a half

And so they are! You can tell I've never been on a hunt - from Hunting Etiquette:

Hounds are counted in couples (i.e. one hound, a couple, a couple and a half, two couples, etc.). Couples are also two collars linked on a chain and can be seen hanging on the hunt staffs' saddles.